TASA Announces Regional Nominees for 2017 Outstanding School Board

07.19.2017 — Sixteen Texas school district boards of trustees have
been selected as regional nominees for the 2017 TASA School Board
Awards.

The regional nominees for 2017 Outstanding School Board of the Year are:

Region

School District

Nominating Superintendent

1

Lasara ISD

Sara Alvarado

3

Wharton ISD

Tina Herrington

4

Galena Park ISD

Angi Williams

5

Hardin-Jefferson

Shannon Holmes

7

Longview ISD

James Wilcox

8

Sulphur Springs ISD

Michael Lamb

10

Royse City ISD

Kevin Worthy

11

Mansfield ISD

Jim Vaszauskas

12

Killeen ISD

John Craft

13

Dripping Springs ISD

Bruce Gearing

16

Canadian ISD

Kyle Lynch

17

O'Donnell ISD

Cathy Palmer

18

Coahoma ISD

Amy Jacobs

18

Alpine ISD

Rebecca Watley

20

Center Point ISD

Cody Newcomb

20

Southwest ISD

Lloyd Verstuyft

Texas school superintendents who belong to TASA and meet other criteria
may nominate their boards of trustees for the TASA School Board Awards.
Committees of TASA members organized by Texas’ regional education
service centers review the nominations and select up to two school
boards for consideration for the state-level awards: one with fewer than
1,000 students and one with 1,000 or more students.

TASA’s School Board Awards Committee will meet in late July to
select up to five of the nominated boards to be recognized as Honor
Boards. Those finalists will be interviewed at the TASA/TASB Convention
in Dallas October 6-8, and one will be named Outstanding School Board of
the Year during that event.